[LINK] Time Man of the Year (Assange?)

Paul Brooks pbrooks-link at layer10.com.au
Wed Dec 8 01:31:47 AEDT 2010


On 5/12/2010 3:59 PM, Tom Koltai wrote:
> On the front cover of Time next  week,
>
> TIME magazine's December 13 edition features Julian Assange on the cover
> and a number of WikiLeaks-related articles, including Massimo
> Calabresi's cover story, WikiLeaks' War on Secrecy: Truth's Consequences
> <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034276,00.html>  , and an
> additional feature by Fareed Zakaria: WikiLeaks Shows the Skills of U.S.
> Diplomats
> <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034284,00.html>  .
>
>
> Will Julian win Man of the year ?
>
> Currently with 150K votes he is running at slot number 2.
>
> Polling Results.
>
>
> http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_20290
> 36_2029037,00.html #ixzz17D31KteF
> <http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2029
> 036_2029037,00.html%20#ixzz17D31KteF>
>
>
> Vote for Julian:
>
> http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_20287
> 33,00.html
>
>
> A most awesome result if the number one man on Interpols most wanted
> list, a traitor in the USA and an unapproved Aussie whistleblower is
> acclaimed by the Time readers as being more relevant and important to
> the world than:
>
>
> The Top 25 as at Sunday 15:55.
> Position, Name, Average Rating, Total votes
>   1 ,Recep Tayyip Erdogan                            ,84 ,188878
>   2 ,Julian Assange                                  ,88 ,158815
>   3 ,Lady Gaga                                       ,76 ,126097
>   4 ,Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert                 ,83 , 64186
>   5 ,Glenn Beck                                      ,35 , 65210
>   6 ,Barack Obama                                    ,61 , 20168
>   7 ,Steve Jobs                                      ,65 , 18222
>   8 ,The Unemployed American                         ,69 , 14587
>   9 ,The Chilean Miners                              ,52 , 19207
> 10 ,Sarah Palin                                     ,34 , 21732
> 11 ,Mark Zuckerberg                                 ,53 , 12161
> 12 ,Liu Xiaobo                                      ,68 ,  8742
> 13 ,David Cameron                                   ,35 , 13396
> 14 ,Hu Jintao                                       ,50 ,  8268
> 15 ,Robert Gates                                    ,42 ,  9155
> 16 ,Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf                          ,50 ,  6934
> 17 ,Nancy Pelosi                                    ,38 ,  9107
> 18 ,Craig Venter                                    ,57 ,  5791
> 19 ,Arne Duncan                                     ,30 ,  9140
> 20 ,Elizabeth Warren, Mary Schapiro and Sheila Bair ,48 ,  5254
> 21 ,David and Charles Koch                          ,35 ,  6415
> 22 ,LeBron James                                    ,23 ,  9739
> 23 ,Jonathan Franzen                                ,23 ,  8350
> 24 ,Hamid Karzai                                    ,30 ,  5956
> 25 ,Tony Hayward                                    ,23 ,  7946
>
> Julian is scoring higher than the other candidates but has less total
> votes.
>
> In fact a result like that would force Governments to recognise that the
> citizens want and need real transparency.
By Tuesday night/Wednesday morning Sydney-time, Assange is well in the lead....

Rank 	Name 	Avg. Rating 	Total Votes
1 	Julian Assange 	90 	251202
2 	Recep Tayyip Erdogan 	82 	217954
3 	Lady Gaga 	73 	134913
4 	Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert 	82 	70038
5 	Glenn Beck 	31 	77483







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